Sadly that would eliminate the matte finish as it’s a product of the surface nanostructure.

Actual Vantablack (not Musou black as used in that video) is quite delicate. The carbon nanotubes are vertically aligned by a deposition process and easily flake off.

A Rion RE90 will do 75mph for “only” twice the price of the GT2.

Jones the cat was the best character. I want to read his backstory.

There appears to be a strong intersection between anthropogenic climate change denial and religiosity. Most of the skeptics I have known were also strongly religious.

It is a movie that touched me deeply as a child. It’s been a long time since I last saw it, so my memory may be fuzzy, but I have the impression that the forests were no longer needed for life on Earth (I’m guessing they had an industrial means of converting CO2 to oxygen). So destroying them wasn’t dooming life on…

Through a lack of imagination, each custodian of the Star Wars franchise makes the galaxy feel pathetically small. I’m sure they’ll each give some excuse about making it intimate and personal, but “Oh, here’s our old friend f**king R2D2, and f**king Tattooine again”, just starts to feel small-minded and cynical after…

Cavill is British and that whole jocks v nerds trope doesn’t exist to the same degree as it does here in the USA.

MDMA isn’t iocane. Unless they were drinking very large quantities of champagne with very diluted MDMA, there’s no way they wouldn’t have known the drinks were spiked.

Any smart dialog, or just majestic landscapes, and over the top action sequences?

But this sensor is incredibly low resolution. It has 5,500 RGB pixels in the area a conventional CMOS sensor might have 156 megapixels!

There are many teams around the world working on quantum dot sensors. Invisage was trying to use a quantum film, but failed to get good image quality before they ran out of money and were acquired by Apple (the former Invisage team member are not working on the quantum tech any more).

Looking what other countries have done to solve the same problem would seem like a good starting point. Re-inventing the wheel if it’s not needed is foolish. I know that doesn’t sit well with the “Yeah! ‘Merica” crowd, but learning from others (including from their mistakes) is what smart people do.

A friend of mine married her. No joke!

Clearly the Second Age was before COVID, as there wasn’t a lot of hand washing going on.

Regardless, the USPS announced it had struck a deal with Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh last February, which would see the agency spend around $11.3 billion on up to 165,000 new vehicles over the next decade...

Maybe Destiny 2's writing was improved (I gave up after being underwhelmed by the first game), but Destiny 1's writing wasn’t even worthy of a game, let alone a TV show or movie. It was completely cliched and chock full of technobabble.

Brilliant, but I’ll wait for the carbon fiber edition.

I hear Andy Serkis is playing The Flood.

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”